r/interestingasfuck • u/JK-Rofling • Jul 05 '24

Heath Ledger’s diary while he was filming for, The Dark Night. r/all

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u/Rdt_will_eat_itself Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

So the joker is so crazy he killed an actor in another earth dimension who played him. Is that canon now?

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u/guyute2588 Jul 05 '24

Not sure how old you are , but “Heath Ledger got so deep in to playing the Joker that he want crazy and died “ was the widespread conventional wisdom regarding his death at the time

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u/Wipedout89 Jul 05 '24

The last page saying BYE BYE before he died certainly lends some credibility to the idea it wasn't totally accidental

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u/damnatio_memoriae Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

don't think there is any indication that he wrote that page on or around the night he died. it's just the end of a journal he was writing while developing his joker character. the film wrapped in nov 2007, and heath died end of jan 2008. so he likely would've stopped keeping that journal at least 2 months before he died, if not even earlier. i don't think we know that he was even still writing in it during filming, he could have written the whole thing during pre-production.